PASMA – Towers for Users

PASMA Towers for Users will equip you with the specialist knowledge you need to work safely with mobile access towers. 

Course Content

• Work at height responsibilities of employers, employees and suppliers

• Standards affecting the manufacture and use of mobile access towers

• Where to find crucial safety information

• When it’s safe to use a mobile access tower, and when it’s not

• Carrying out pre-use checks and post-assembly inspections on mobile access towers

• Assembling and dismantling a mobile access tower using approved methods 

• Good practices for the safe use of mobile access towers

• Accessing a platform safely

• Moving a mobile access tower

• The components used in a mobile access tower

• Identifying hazards in the work environment
• Avoiding personal health hazards

Upon successful completion, delegates will know

• How to safely assemble, dismantle, alter and move mobile access towers

• How to safely use mobile access towers

• How to inspect mobile access towers

• How to identify hazards relating to their use

• What legislation, regulations and guidance are applicable to these towers

On successfully completing the theory and practical segments of the course, you will receive a PASMA Photo Card and Certificate. 

Course content:

• Introduction to Mobile Access Towers
• Safety Code
• Health & Safety at Work Act Etc. 1974.
• Work at Height Regulations 2005
• PUWER, Provision and Use of Working Equipment Regulations 1998.
• Film/DVD
• Stability
• Tower Components
• Inspection & Maintenance
• Introduction to Mobile Access Towers
• Tower Assembly – Beta Guard & Octo 250
• Repositioning Towers
• Tower Dismantle – Beta Guard & Octo 250
• Theoretical and Practical Assessment